The travels of Sir John Mandeville : the version of the Cotton Manuscript in modern spelling : with three narratives, in illustration of it, from Hakluyt's "Navigations, voyages & discoveries".
Sir John Mandeville
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251037
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 390, [2] p. ; 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscription in red and black ink on front free endpaper: "Ex libris Xamas [sic] 1911 / Huttleston Broughton" above a hand-drawn blank shield, quartered, surmounted with family crests (closed helmet and boar's head) and with Broughton family motto "Si je puis" below [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full red cloth; blind roll (flowers and leaves) at head and foot of upper board; gilt roll (flowers and leaves) at head and foot of spine; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir John Mandeville, author Alfred William Pollard (1859-1944), editor